The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) to recognize a physician from each of the Society’s 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community.

Board certified in emergency medicine, Dr. Dunkerley has been an emergency physician at Baystate Franklin Medical Center since 2006. He earned his bachelor of science in biophysics, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and received his medical degree from the School of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency in emergency medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. From 2013-2015, Dr. Dunkerley served as the school physician for the Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School in Easthampton.

The Community Clinician of the Year Award is the latest honor accorded to Dr. Dunkerley. He has previously received the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Award and the Medical Staff Leadership Award from Baystate Franklin Medical Center. He is also a member of the National Medical Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Dunkerley resides in Northampton.

Founded in 1781, Massachusetts Medical Society is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. The MMS, with some 25,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society, under the auspices of NEJM Group, publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education providing accredited and certified activities across the globe for physicians and other health care professionals. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.

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